McCrory In A Hole, Digging Furiously

"I'd like a court to explain it to me."

North Carolina's HB 2 -- the anti-LGBT Potty Police law -- has been found by the U.S. Dept. of Justice to be discriminatory and a violation of federal civil rights laws.  The state was advised by the DOJ to not enforce HB 2, at the risk of losing billions of dollars in federal education funding.

All Gov. Pat McCrory had to say was, "OK, we won't implement the law."  But no, he's decided to sue the DOJ for the right to enforce the unenforceable, unconstitutional and thoroughly stupid law.

Instead of admitting his mistake, McCrory is doubling down, determined to dig his own political grave over a non-issue.  The DOJ is now counter-suing North Carolina.  The ACLU is also bringing suit.

He could have taken his cue from Glenn Sheller, right-wing editorial page editor for the Columbus Dispatch.  I've rarely had anything good to say about the newspaper or Mr. Sheller.  Sheller is a fan of assault weapons and believes teachers should carry firearms.  He hates labor unions and Obamacare, and makes sure readers get a steady diet of conservative columnists and cartoonists.

But yesterday Sheller wrote a column of his own, which began, "My wife and I are parents of a transgender child.  We are puzzled about why our son and other transgender people suddenly have become the obsession of lawmakers around the country."  He ended with, "[Transgender people] want the same decency and respect that all of us expect.  They are not a threat.  My son is not a threat."

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2016/05/08/1-laws-against-trangender-people-make-no-sense.html

The column is the only decent, sensitive, human thing Sheller has ever written -- a proud, hard-ass, wing-nut comes to terms with his transgender child, then discusses it openly on the op-ed page.  I give him big props!  On this issue, he's become a mensch.

Has Sheller changed any of his other misbegotten views?  Undoubtedly not.  Like so many others, he departs from conservative dogma only when it impacts him personally.  He has a transgender son, so he's opposed to LGBT discrimination.  Sorta like when DOMA defender Sen. Rob Portman changed his tune on gay marriage after he suddenly "discovered" his son was gay.  A convenient and narrow "deathbed conversion."